Ali
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Ali
@303Bit
Computer, what the heck is going on?!
Vancouver, BC Sumali Kasım 2009
110 Sinusundan89 Mga Tagasunod

@kdiwaniya All the ICE drama, deportations, and visa bans are to minimize the number of people that will be voting against the Trump administration in the midterms. Many states do not require an ID to vote.
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@TheMightyMagnet @krassenstein They do. That warm fuzzy feeling will pull people towards them, the same people who will vote for the next president, who will have a say on tariffs
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@RhysSullivan @typescript-eslint/prefer-nullish-coalescing
@typescript-eslint/strict-boolean-expressions
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@blueobsidian_ @RyanCarniato I can and actually do sponsor (within my means) multiple OSS projects. You shouldn't underestimate the impact of collaborative effort. Maintainers could end up earning more than they would being sponsored by Vercel.
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@303Bit @RyanCarniato Then you fund them but you can't and that's the problem
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Regarding Guillermo-Gate, I've seen people use it as a reason to boycott OSS projects.
Going after OSS projects that are openly governed isn't going to do what you want it to. Vercel makes its money from its hosting platform and paid products. OSS is not a paid product and while contributes goodwill doesn't directly impact the bottomline. And these project's reach well exceed Vercel.
First the list is longer than you think. Yes Next, Svelte/SvelteKit, Webpack, SWC, TurboRepo. There are also Nuxt, Nitro, React. Seb, the current visionary of the React team, as well as Andrew work at Vercel, not Meta. Should we boycott React metaframeworks too? Remix/RR, Tanstack React? Good luck finding projects that haven't received money from Vercel in the past.
Secondly impact. When you realize things Nitro/UnJS that exist to keep the platform open and not locked in to a single deployment platform, and are used outside of Vercel (Tanstack Start, SolidStart, Analog). Or Webpack/SWR which power countless projects it is difficult to make this about Vercel.
Third, I've seen the suggestion that Vercel acquires OSS the way one does companies. It doesn't work like that. The way you kill off OSS is easy. Remove their source of funding. NuxtLabs could have gone under and took Nuxt with it. I've seen this happen to other projects.
More so because these are open projects, it isn't like you buy their customers. You can still deploy Nuxt/SvelteKit anywhere. It creates good will, but they can go anywhere. There are no contracts. NuxtLabs was a company, but Nuxt isn't. These are more like charity foundations.
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Edit for clarity:
NextAuth and Auth.js have been deprecated. They were acquired by BetterAuth, a venture-funded alternative, and will no longer receive new features.
My conclusion is that free, community-supported auth is no longer viable. Auth.js was the last remaining popular one for modern React stacks.
The remaining solutions are all venture funded and will try to sell you something. They will all probably also offer something for free.
There is nothing wrong with this and it should not be scary. Almost all infra we use to build software today is venture funded.
But still, it’s noteworthy. Auth has been a holdout while other infra has shifted. 10 years ago, community-supported auth was still most common for new projects.
This is not meant to throw shade at BetterAuth. You should use the solution that’s best for you. I know some prefer its tradeoffs to Clerk’s and that’s okay.
I regret the confusion caused by my shorthand. I of course recognize that OSS solutions can be forked and used for free forever, but I don’t think that changes the significance of how this acquisition reflects on community-supported auth.
Colin | clerk.com@tweetsbycolin
Auth.js deprecated. There's no such thing as free auth. "Maintainers moved roles, time was tight, and the surface area outgrew what we could responsibly support."
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@shortwave78 I don't know if the audio itself is disturbing or the fact that a radio wave can change the course of history at any given moment.
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@shortwave78 Man I was always of the opinion that these digital radio "messages?" Are kind of disturbing, but also really interesting, morbidly curious sort of.
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@CalltoActivism It's accurate if they're expecting the US dollar to lose 90% of its value.
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@bryan_johnson What would inspire me to follow your program is not how fit and healthy you look, but the evolution of your character. You're definitely doing something right.
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